python-plexapi VS mutagen

Oh shit! I never even bothered to look because I asked a long time ago and was given and emphatic no. It looks like there is a playlist class. So I'll have to play with that and see what it can do.

I wanted a way to pick a random album from a collection and tell the Plexamp client connected to my speakers to play it. I wrote a detailed post about a simple way and a fancy way to do this using the unofficial Python Plex library.

It is the library agent change this guy was on the right track https://github.com/pkkid/python-plexapi/issues/534

Sources: https://python-plexapi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://github.com/pkkid/python-plexapi

There's no in the box option for that, but you can easily make something that can do it with things like the python plex api. Get random movie, send play command with offset for some random point. Sleep some random amount of time. Send a stop command and repeat the previous steps.

You should look into the python PlexAPI wrapper library. Here is an equivalent script using PlexAPI.

I am not sure if there is an official way most people do this, but I think the best bet would be to use data directly from plex - https://python-plexapi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/modules/server.html#plexapi.server.PlexServer.sessions to loop through every so often and get a list of current sessions (currently playing media). Once that goes empty start a timer for shutdown. If a session starts again end the shutdown, you could even look at to see if something is "paused" and have a different shutdown time for paused vs nothing playing if you really wanted.

Note for the confused (maybe just me?), this is not related to python-mutagen[0], the metadata library.

[0] https://mutagen.readthedocs.io

I actually originally wrote Resonance in entirely in python when I was first learning how to make gtk4 / libadwaita applications. This first version used the mutagen tagging library for importing tags, which was written for the quodlibet player. Eventually, through the course of developing Resonance, I ran into noticeable latency issues with a sizable enough library. This was due (I think maybe due to this?) to how gdk pixbuf loading worked within PyGObject. This was especially an issue with the main album grid flowbox. (Loading a ton of album covers made it super laggy)

At least https://github.com/quodlibet/mutagen/issues doesn't seem to have issues open related about Ogg that seem relevant.

If you do python, check this module out: https://github.com/quodlibet/mutagen

The python script will update the metadata and prepare it for plex using mutagen

not sure but see this thread https://github.com/quodlibet/mutagen/issues/327

It looks like mutagen is mapping version to TIT3.

It looks like Quod Libet, ExFalso (it's tag editor) and Mutagen its tagging library are the only ones that really do support actual multiple tags, both writing (Mutagen and ExFalso) and reading/playing/acting as a music library with Quod Libet…